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Thomas James MacMurray
frontiespiece Thomas J. MacMurray was born in Scotland on July 23, 1852. "As minister, lawyer, printer, poet, author, editor, Mr. MacMurray has had somewhat of a varied career, considering that he is yet but comparatively a young man. He came to Canada when ten years of age, and was thoroughly educated, graduating at a theological college. He was connected with the Detroit conference in 1877, and four years later came to the Wisconsin conference. In 1883 he was admitted to the Wisconsin bar." [Thos. W. Herringshaw (ed.), Local and National Poets of America 179 (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1890)] Poetry Thomas J. MacMurray, The Legend of Delaware Valley, and Other Poems (Toronto, Canada: William Briggs, 1877) _________________, After-Hours: A Collection of Ballads, Lyrics and Sonnets (Chicago: American Publishers' Association, 1892) [online text] Writings Thomas James MacMurray, The Highways of Success (Chicago: Progress, 1909) |